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US
/ˈbɹaɪb/
]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪb/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪb/ ]
NOUN
- payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment
VERB
-
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
This judge can be bought
How To Use bribe In A Sentence
- In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
- Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
- everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified
- It is a secure, multilingual website on which company employees can anonymously report any bribe demands that they receive. Times, Sunday Times
- It will be misconstrued as bribery, which is frowned on in legal circles.
- I was well aware of the drill here, that is, that a bribe was expected to process the papers.
- He bribed an operator at the transmat port to send us over to the space docks.
- Nelson received $45 million in bribe money for his State to swing his vote doesn't anyone else find this criminal and IMPEACHABLE? Huckabee compares Nelson to Judas
- But that would be fine anyway, we can always bribe the CEO/Emperor of Blackwater later. mux Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Soldiering
- The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta. India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
